Updated on 2024-10-14 GMT+08:00

Restoration Solutions

If your database is damaged or mistakenly deleted, you can restore it from backups.

Restoring a Mistakenly Deleted Instance

  • RDS moves unsubscribed yearly/monthly instances and deleted pay-per-use instances to the recycle bin. You can rebuild an instance that was deleted up to 7 days ago from the recycle bin.
  • You can restore a deleted instance from its retained manual backups. For details, see Restoring a DB Instance from Backups.

Restoring Mistakenly Deleted or Modified Data of a DB Instance

Table 1 Restoration solutions

Solution

Category

Storage Type

Restoration Time Point

Scope

Restore To

Time Required

Cloud SSD

Extreme SSD

Point in Time When a Backup Was Generated

All Databases and Tables

Certain Databases and Tables

New Instance

Original Instance

Existing Instance Other than the Original Instance

Restoring an entire instance

Restoration from backups

x

x

Depending on how much data there is in the instance

Point-in-time recovery (PITR)

x

Depending on how much data there is in the instance

Restoring databases and tables

Standard restoration

x

x

x

Depending on how much data there is in the instance and in the databases and tables

Fast restoration

x

x

x

Depending on how much data there is in the databases and tables

Restoring or Migrating Data to an RDS for MySQL Instance

Restoring or Migrating Data to a Self-Managed MySQL Database